Evidence
World Trade Organization
It’s very likely that you will be covering the World Trade Organization (WTO) throughout the upcoming year. I found this Congressional Research Service (CRS – great evidence source!) on “World Trade Organization (WTO): Issues in the Debate on Continued U.S. Participation” and thought there may be some interesting cards to cut on both running a [...]
Starter Packet for 2011-12 Topic
I attach here a starter packet for teams looking to begin practicing. It is likely of lower quality than the larger teams already have, but it should allow small and/or new teams to start practicing right away. It includes a currency manipulation aff (donated by Danny), some specific negative against currency manipulation, a specific DA against currency [...]
Subnational Cooperation
I first want to start by thanking Kern for coming on as an author on SoCal-LD.net! Kern is entering his third and final year of LD Debate for Rice University. I’m excited to hear Kern’s view points from a different circuit in NFA-LD. Regarding the ability to counterplan I think there is a growing body [...]
NDCA Open Evidence Project
I wanted to remind everyone that the National Debate Coaches Association runs the “Open Evidence Project” which aims to release thousands of files from high school debate camps to the debate community. While a lot of the files are obviously not relevant for us this year (although if your case deals with space it may [...]
Protectionism
You’ll likely see more than one disadvantage on protectionism this year. Here is an interesting publication from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace arguing that protectionism is simply not being embraced by countries (ie, no link) from May 2011. That would probably post-date a lot of the disadvantage which would give you a real leg [...]
China tries to put brakes on overheated economy
China tries to put brakes on overheated economy. Interesting Article from the LA Times on China’s economy. Share on Facebook
3 More Affirmative Cases
Thanks to Tony Liu (El Camino) for sending in three example affirmative cases from last year. Bipolar 1AC (PDF) Polytherapy 1AC Revised PTSD 1AC Comm Judge PTSD 1AC Revised You’ll notice that he sent in two versions of the PTSD affirmative – one specifically designated for Comm (communication) judges. I’d be interested to hear if [...]
One Stop Research Center
Just found this while doing some basic research on the topic…http://www.futureofuschinatrade.com/ … seems pretty good! It’s hosted by Arizona State University and The Kearny Alliance which gives it a lot of credibility. Post the best stuff you find in the comments! I wonder if we can get the collaboration to sponsor the SoCal-LD Championships this [...]
Homelessness Aff
Thanks to Mat Swanson (SDSU) for sending in his homelessness affirmative from last year. It’s available here (PDF) and on the evidence page. Please send any files (generic backfiles are appreciated as well!) to info@socal-ld.net Share on Facebook
Mental Health Evidence Sharing
Hello all – if anyone has any evidence from last year that they wouldn’t mind sharing with the community I would be happy to host it here on the evidence page. My experience has been that one of the best teaching tools for new debaters is to see existing evidence that was used in competition. [...]
BREAKING – Board suspends vote – will keep this year’s topic one more year
Just got an interesting email on the IE-L regarding next year’s NFA-LD topic… … The NFA-LD committee has just finished receiving results from the 2010-2011 coaches NFA-LD survey that was sent out two weeks ago to all active NFA member schools. Apparently, preliminary results indicate that a majority of debaters have decided against engaging the [...]
Children case?
Not sure if anyone is doing a case on children’s mental illness but I found this article interesting for the negative – basically, stop medicating and start parenting! I think a good generic disadvantage that would be good to bring to a tournament is the idea that treating mental illness with medication causes more harm [...]
